Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Alfred Dreyfus
Standard Name: Dreyfus, Alfred
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | G. B. Stern | Both of GBS
's parents were Jewish: her ancestors, some of them upper-class, hailed from Austria (before that from the present-day Czech Republic) or from Germany; yet her life-writings display a confident and unproblematic sense... |
Education | Phyllis Bottome | Because PB
was so interested in her French classes, her mother permitted Mellie to instruct her at their home. Despite their friendship, there was one matter on which Mellie and Phyllis could not agree—the Dreyfus |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phyllis Bottome | By borrowing the title of Émile Zola
's J'accuse, published on 13 January 1898 to uncover the conspiracy against Alfred Dreyfus
, PB
invoked both the long history of European anti-semitism, and the occasional... |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Galsworthy | The plot is reminiscent of the Dreyfus
Affair, to which JG
alludes in the play. Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish family, was convicted of treason in late 1894 on the basis of a... |
politics | Josephine Butler | Even after her retirement from an active public life, JB
continued to be interested in a number of international causes. She supported Home Rule in Ireland (two bills for which were defeated in 1886); she... |
politics | T. S. Eliot | Eliot's stated position was close to that taken by Charles Maurras
and others in the French journal Action française, mouthpiece of the political movement of the same name. |
politics | A. Mary F. Robinson | She was a strong Dreyfusard, or supporter of Alfred Dreyfus
, the Jewish captain in the French army who was accused on a trumped-up charge of treason only four days before Robinson's first husband died. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Hannah Arendt | This was her first American publication. The second, more significant one was From the Dreyfus
Affair to France Today, which appeared in Jewish Social Studies in July the same year. This piece, which argues... |
Textual Features | Sybille Bedford | This volume makes its strong impression through the juxtaposition of the pleasures of food, wine, movement, and places with the horrors of human violence and cruelty and the well-meant but often in practice grotesque or... |
Textual Production | Bernice Rubens | BR
published a novel entitled I, Dreyfus; it updates the tale of the actual Dreyfus
, a Jewish officer in the French army, as that of an English, Jewish public-school headmaster. The implied parallel... |
Textual Production | Hannah Lynch | HL
's Academy essay Insanity in Literature distinguished two kinds: the insanity of hate, represented by nationalist, anti-Semitic writers in the wake of the Dreyfus
affair like Léon Daudet
, Maurice Barrès
, and Gyp |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mavis Gallant | MG
was working on a biography of Alfred Dreyfus
when she developed the idea for Linnet Muir. The biography, which she abandoned and burned after decades of work, had been commissioned by Random House
after... |
Timeline
15 October 1894: Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer...
National or international item
15 October 1894
Captain Alfred Dreyfus
, a Jewish officer in the French Army, was arrested on a (false) charge of treason.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
322
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
448, 450
13 January 1898: Emile Zola published J'Accuse in the newspaper...
Writing climate item
13 January 1898
Emile Zola
published J'Accuse in the newspaper L'Aurore: an open letter to President Faure of France
, levelling accusations about the unjust trial and punishment of the Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus
.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
13 December 2009
After mid-January 1898: A set of picture postcards was issued in...
National or international item
After mid-January 1898
A set of picture postcards was issued in France publicizing the Dreyfus
case.
Staff, Frank. The Picture Postcard and Its Origins. F. A. Praeger, 1966.
62
Texts
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